Albert Hay Malotte composed a number of film scores, including mostly uncredited music for animations by the Disney studios. He is, however, best remembered for his setting of The Lord's Prayer. Here it is in a deeply moving recording featuring Andrea Bocelli & the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
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Considered to be one of Vivaldi's most beautiful solo motets, Nulla in mundo pax sincera is beautifully performed here by Christopher Hogwood’s Academy of Ancient Music with soprano, Emma Kirkby. You can follow the lyrics and translation here.
Edward Elgar's THE KINGDOM tells the story of the early church community with texts from the Acts of the Apostles which are read at daily and Sunday Catholic and Anglican religious services in Eastertide.
Here it is performed by the Hallé Choir · conducted by Sir Mark Elder. All the movements are listed separately on the right hand side of the screen - allowing people to listen to one section at a time rather than having to work through the full work in one sitting!
Here it is performed by the Hallé Choir · conducted by Sir Mark Elder. All the movements are listed separately on the right hand side of the screen - allowing people to listen to one section at a time rather than having to work through the full work in one sitting!
World’s Largest Virtual #Hallelujah Chorus
Even in these very troubled times, we defy anyone to listen to this extraordinary rendition of the Hallelujah chorus from Handel's Messiah. It is performed with unquenchable hope by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, joined by 2,000 voices across the globe in a massive virtual choir. Play it as loudly as you can, preferably with earphones on!
Even in these very troubled times, we defy anyone to listen to this extraordinary rendition of the Hallelujah chorus from Handel's Messiah. It is performed with unquenchable hope by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, joined by 2,000 voices across the globe in a massive virtual choir. Play it as loudly as you can, preferably with earphones on!
Pergolesi composed his haunting Stabat Mater in the final weeks of his life, when he was dying from tuberculosis at the age of 26. Scored for soprano and alto soloists, it is performed here by Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor and Emöke Barath, soprano, conducted by Nathalie Stutzman. Follow the libretto here. 39 minutes.
I have never put my hope in any other
but in You,
O God of Israel
who can show both anger and graciousness,
and who absolves all the sins
of suffering man
Lord God, Creator of Heaven and Earth
be mindful of our lowliness.
but in You,
O God of Israel
who can show both anger and graciousness,
and who absolves all the sins
of suffering man
Lord God, Creator of Heaven and Earth
be mindful of our lowliness.
Spem in alium nunquam habui
Praeter in te,
Deus Israel
Qui irasceris et propitius eris
et omnia peccata hominum
in tribulatione dimittis
Domine Deus Creator caeli et terrae
respice humilitatem nostram.
Praeter in te,
Deus Israel
Qui irasceris et propitius eris
et omnia peccata hominum
in tribulatione dimittis
Domine Deus Creator caeli et terrae
respice humilitatem nostram.
Listen here to some of the unique and glorious music of the 12th century St Hildegard of Bingen - abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary, and polymath. For Hildegard, music rises almost to the level of a sacrament, channeling the perfection of divine grace from the heavenly choirs down to us, where we reflect the symphony in the blessed joy of song.
Photograph above courtesy of Eoghan Kavanagh.
Sacred Music
"Sacred music and liturgical chant have the task of giving us a sense of the glory of God, of his beauty, of his holiness which wraps us in a 'luminous cloud'".
Pope Francis, addressing the 2017 International Conferfence on Sacred Music.
Below are links to some of the wide range of music we love at New Pilgrim Path.
Pope Francis, addressing the 2017 International Conferfence on Sacred Music.
Below are links to some of the wide range of music we love at New Pilgrim Path.
Here is a beautiful performance by Hofstra Chamber Choir of contemporary American composer, Eric Whitacre’s, musical setting of “i thank You God for most this amazing day" by e e cummings. Click here to follow the lyrics.
Tallis’s 40-part motet Spem in alium has been described as one of the most astonishing achievements of the human spirit. It is sung here by the Tallis Scholars, Click on “show more” to reveal the full lyrics and translation.
American composer Randall Thompson’s sombre Alleluia was composed over the first five days of July, 1940, shortly after the fall of France. The composer himself described it as “a very sad piece. The word "Alleluia" has so many possible interpretations. The music in my particular Alleluia cannot be made to sound joyous. It is a slow, sad piece, and here it is comparable to the Book of Job, where it is written, ‘The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.’”
"St Patrick's Breastplate", or "I Bind Unto Myself Today" - sung by Keble College Choir, Oxford. Words by St Patrick, Apostle of Ireland. 
The stirring Benedictus from Karl Jenkins' The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace is performed here by one of Scotland's foremost choral groups, the Glasgow Phoenix Choir.
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New settings of Psalm 137 – perhaps the most haunting of all the Psalms - continue to be composed. This deeply moving version is one of the most recent, by an undergraduate at Corpus Christi College in Cambridge, Jack Richard Hodkinson, performed by the Choir of Corpus Christi in 2016. To read the words of the Psalm, click here.
Contemplative solo improvisations by cellist, Hans Christian, recorded in Chartres Cathedral.
Considered to be one of Vivaldi's most beautiful solo motets, Nulla in mundo pax sincera is beautifully performed here by Christopher Hogwood’s Academy of Ancient Music with soprano, Emma Kirkby. You can follow the lyrics and translation here.
The 1986 recording of Rachmaninov's "Vespers" in Smolensk Cathedral, under the direction of Valery Polyansky, is considered one of the greatest. Listen here to the full work. For the lyrics, click here.
Mendelssohn's Elijah brings to life some of the most dramatic moments in the Old Testament.It is an extraordinary and uplifting musical experience. See here for the libretto.
Pope Francis writes: "The piece by Bach that I love so much is the 'Erbarme Dich,' the tears of Peter in the St. Matthew Passion. Sublime." Eula Biel sings, with Yehudi Menuhin playing the violi solo
The Taizé community in France is an ecunemical monastic order and one of the world's most important pilgrimage sites, especially for youth. It is famed for its distinctive meditative prayer chants. Listen here. 
Music for contemplation! The choir of New College Oxford sing some of the great sacred masterpieces. |